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The Paris Climate Agreement defined an ambition of limiting global warming to 1.5 °C above preindustrial levels. This has triggered research on stringent emission reduction targets and corresponding mitigation pathways across energy economy and societal systems. Driven by methodological considerations, supply side and carbon dioxide removal options feature prominently in the emerging pathway liter
This paper revisits the Power Resource Theory by testing one of its more influential claims: the relation between the strength of the labor movement and the reduction of industrial conflicts. Using panel data techniques to analyze more than 2,000 strikes in 103 Swedish towns we test whether a shift in the balance of power towards Social Democratic rule was associated with fewer strikes. The focus
Cities are well-positioned to realize both sustainable development goals and humanrights. Policy implementation, delivery of public services, and the reproduction of inclusivesocieties take place in cities, where 80 per cent of global GDP is generated (SDSN 2016:11). Cities are also home to extreme poverty, socio-economic disparities, unsustainablepatterns of consumption and production, and human
“Skånes väl”. The scanian regionalists meet the Swedish nationalists. During the past two decades right-wing populist parties have made substantial electoral gains in many West European countries. In Sweden the success of such parties has been limited compared to e.g. Denmark and Norway. In 1998 an electoral coalition of local populist parties, ";Skånes Väl";, in southern Sweden gained 4.1% of the
Social capital and the miniaturisation of community. Social capital has been conceptualized both as a contextual property of communities and as a property of individuals. Two of the building blocks of the notion of social capital are social participation and trust. High levels of social participation and trust are reciprocally reinforcing with two-way causality, according to the literature. Howeve
